Ditch the iPhone and Be Bored? Do It!

Intel cultural anthropologist Dr. Genevieve Bell looks at the benefits of disconnecting from the myriad technological products available and finding boredom to recharge the mind. Photo: AP.

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... the the ... she'll overload ... did did ... did flights at us and and really ... is high for connectedness that did the promises that all is that we would never before ... he spoke about that now ... you think we should actually see California ... but why tell tell tell us what one is boredom ... use valuable useful ... also if you look back to both of Mason in psychology TV and philosophy three set a very different pots right ... comments and tells us that you know we need to have moments where our brains that can begin with two different kinds of work right so ... we mostly know that we should have a love story because it allows the brains to certain kinds of of work Write to effectively reset itself ... it's on the ticket constantly engaged this thing is your brain is not doing so the so the medically reasons why we need to be a little disengaged periodically ... in terms of psychology there's also some stuff about attention and they need to have different kinds of attentiveness to the world ... also the site of this is really lovely argument that says that boredom is this type of creativity used ... and in fact if he does have moments of ... being disconnected from everyone else's ideas utensils ... as the people that ... the Sabato putting hijacking of the beach looking ... at hiding parents know that some of the late twentieth century philosophy actually I he's the ... boy was the fundamental side of him ... and that we are frightened of it so we spend a lot and I'm like you don't like the turbine of what it means to be basically along with our walks ... but for me I think you know we know the something incredibly generative about the zoo on Sunday aam old enough to be a bit of vintage ... when my parents sat me up the back door into summer and said he'd come on when the gospel yet hungry ... and you need to get my mom for that ... my mother was use to say that what you can mow the lawn ... I was that of Apple ... Roseen import Nafta could create my own games and do those kind of thing so we know that those moments of ... not the economists worry of not being kind of ... sucked into a greater strain doesn't include ingenuity of siphoning get us something about what it means to have ... a little bit of time ... feel until December when its ... value for disconnecting ... Doctor Genevieve Bell ... thank you very much for coming in the quarter